When a child is born…

I know it’s technically a carol – well that’s what it said on the lyrics site I got the words from, and I know I don’t have any religious beliefs. But every so often I can feel moved and a weeny bit spiritual about why the world still turns and whether we do have all the answers and if there truly is a way to make it all better. Seems to me that if there is then the answer will lie with a child really. In the style of Pay It Forward it is children who have all the answers, they just don’t know the questions yet. And grown ups? Well they have all the questions but they are asking the wrong people for the answers. Think I’m crazy-bonkers? Go and ask the child nearest to you the deepest question you can think of and report back what their answer was…

A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A tiny star
lights up way up high
All across the land dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born

A silent wish sails the seven seas
The winds of change whisper in the trees
And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and torn
This comes to pass, when a child is born

A rosy hue settles all around
You got the feel, you’re on solid ground
For a spell or two no one seems forlorn
This comes to pass, when a child is born

And all of this happens, because the world is waiting.
Waiting for one child; Black-white-yellow, no one knows…
but a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter,
hate to love, war to peace and everyone to everyone’s neighbour,
and misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten forever.

It’s all a dream and illusion now,
It must come true sometime soon somehow,
All across the land dawns a brand new morn,
This comes to pass when a child is born.